Michael Kates
themichaelkates.bsky.social
Michael Kates
@themichaelkates.bsky.social
½ of The Baal Shem Tones
Musical Alchemist, Peradam Productions
Keyboards 🎹 The Decos, Laughing Matters
Producer for Johnny Gelt
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Social media reinforces the simplest, stupidest interpretation of news events.
In case anyone missed this revelation yesterday
May 25, 2025 at 6:20 AM
I’ve been dyeing to post this but I keep forgetting.
@nytimes.com
May 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Miller is MAGA’s specialist in problem fabrication.
Who wants to be the one to tell Pee-Wee German that the "boys at Normandy" weren't all white, non-immigrants, or American citizens, but they *were* all fighting people like Stephen Miller--people called fascists.
May 16, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Who said Trump gets to keep the plane after his term? Was it Quatar? Is it a gift to him personally or to the US government?
May 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
#Adolescence on Netflix 👍👍
March 17, 2025 at 1:47 AM
If y’all can’t wait for #Severance season 3, it all centers around Demi Moore dropping her drawers to show that Hollywood’s beauty aesthetic is all wrong.
March 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Answer: Grow the fuck up
March 7, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Good morning, BlueSky.
Good morning, @nytimes.com
March 6, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Good night, BlueSky
Good night, @nytimes.com
March 6, 2025 at 4:07 AM
BREAKING: Georgia’s #StoneMountain Park has agreed to change the faces of Lee, Jackson & Davis to those of Alito, Gorsuch & Kavanaugh.
March 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
How it begins
March 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
THIS is the guy who tells the president of Ukraine how to dress properly.
March 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Since Mad Men, no TV series has been worth shit past season two.
March 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
First attempt at AI vid: “Baby gorilla playing a guitar in the jungle.” Note neatly sawed-off limb, 7 bridge pins, 6 strings at the bridge, 5 strings on the neck, and 4 tuning pegs.

AI is incapable of understanding.
March 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The @nytimes.com actually responds to having #SpellingBee omissions pointed out, but only if you’re famous.

Meanwhile, here’s a cat.
February 28, 2025 at 3:41 AM
This one goes back years. I admit it’s not often that people talk about ocean sunfish, but when they do, this is one of its common names. The other being “ocean sunfish.”
#SpellingBee
@nytimes.com
@montereyaq.bsky.social
February 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Dated, but valid
February 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Four repeat offenders
@nytimes.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I’m just the messenger
@nytimes.com
February 19, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I know in my heart that they love me.
nytimes.com
February 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
A real one this time
@nytimes.com
February 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Incredible that @nytimes.com doesn’t know the past tense of hairdo.
February 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM